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Introducing Foyle Future Firsts musician Natalie Watson

Introducing Foyle Future Firsts musician Natalie Watson

Bassoonist Natalie Watson is one of the 16 musicians taking part in the LPO's Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme in 2014/15. We recently asked Natalie a few questions to find out about her journey as a musician and about her experience working with the LPO ...

Rachmaninoff: Over and Out

Rachmaninoff: Over and Out

We began Rachmaninoff: Inside Out posing a question that Tolstoy put to Rachmaninoff in 1900: ‘Tell me, does anybody want this kind of music?’
Now that the series is over, we look back over some of the reviews and reactions to the festival and to Rachmaninoff's music, more than 100 years on...

New CD release: Tennstedt conducts Beethoven

New CD release: Tennstedt conducts Beethoven

This month’s release on the LPO label is a pair of archive recordings featuring former Principal Conductor and Music Director Klaus Tennstedt conducting Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and Overture to Egmont.

CD: Messiaen – Des canyons aux étoiles

CD: Messiaen – Des canyons aux étoiles

Messiaen’s unusual instrumentation, inventive scoring and use of birdsong as a source of musical material in Des canyons aux étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) evoke the beauty of a magnificent landscape and celebrate the marvels of Creation itself. A commission by an American...

CD: Beethoven – Symphony No. 6

CD: Beethoven – Symphony No. 6

'No one can love the countryside as much as I do,' Beethoven once said, 'for surely woods, trees and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.' But nature was not just a balm for the senses; for Beethoven...